Improvement in machinery for forming boot and shoe counters



' G. F. MOORE.

MACHINERY FOR FORMING BooT AND s oE COUNTERS.

NQ.19Z,341, Patented June 26,1877.

TI/( L- 7 2 27;942- I TENT GEORGE F. MOORE, OF KENNEBUNK MAINE, ASSIGNORTO MOUSAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR FORMING BOOT AND SHOE COUNTERS-Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,841, dated June 26,1877; application filed May 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE F. Moonn, ofKennebunk, of the county of York, of the State of Maine, have invented anew and useful Machine for Shaping Counters for Boots or Shoes; and dohereby declare the same to be described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is afront elevation, Fig. 2 a vertical and longitudinal section, and Fig. 3a transverse section, of it. Fig. 4 is a section taken verticallythrough the rack and frame of one of the movable stretchers.

In this machine the counter-blank is shaped on a convex surface orformer, and by means of two movable concave stretchers or shapers movingin opposite directions about such convex former. Furthermore, by themachine as represented the counter-blank is not only shaped by theformer and the shaper, but is subsequently discharged from the former bythe shaper. Although I have described the said former as movablevertically, and the shaper to move in opposite directions about it, Iwould remark that such former may be stationary and the sbaper alone bemoved about it.

Each of the weighted carriers of the shapers of the machine, as shown,has, while, in operation, a compound motion imparted to itthat is, itnot only swings on a center or axis, but moves downward or upward whileso doingthe convex former having at the same time a vertical movement.

My invention consists, mainly, in the combination of a convex former andtwo concave wipers or shapers, arranged substantially in manner and tooperate as herein explained.

In the drawings, A denotes the convex former, which, as represented, isovoidal in shape and truncated at its ends, it being attached to acarrier, B, arranged within and supported by a frame, C, so as to becapable of being moved vertically and rectilinearly therein. Fig. 5 is aperspective view of the said carrier and former. Each of the side bars aa of such carrier is furcated or slotted, as shown at b, in order for itto straddle one of the journals 0 c of the two shaper-carriers port twoshapers, D D, whose upper surfaces are concave and concentric with theconvex former, as represented. Each of the shapercarriers, arranged withthe other in manner as shown, has one of the journals 0 0 project ingfrom it through the other carrier and into one of the slots b b.. Italso has fixed on it one of two toothed sectors or gears, F F, whichengage with two vertical and stationary toothed racks, G G, arranged asshown. Opposite each of such racks is a vertical guide, H, between whichand therack the gear or pinion F is disposed, in manner as seen in Fig.4.

The parts ff of the shaper-carriers are intended to be heavy enough tomove the shapers toward each other, or keep them up to the convexformer, while the latter may be in the act of being raised upward; butsprings or other proper means may be adopted for such purpose. In thedrawings I have represented each of the said carriers as having attachedto it a line, h, going around guidewheels z' k, and having appended toit a weight, a". These devices are for the said purpose.

On account of the slots 12 b, the carrier B can be raised above theshapers su'fticiently for a counter-blank to be laid on the uppersurfaces of the said shapers. This having been done, the said carrier isnext to be forced downward. While it may be descending the shapers willbe moved apart in opposite directions, and will stretch and shape theblank against the convex former until the blank may have been depressedbelow such shapers. Should the blank not drop from the convex formerafter the shapers may have thus acted on it, (the said blank,) suchshapers, while the said former may be next drawn upward, will, by theiraction against the edges of the blank, hold it so that the former willbe drawn out of and away from it. Thus the blank, by the action of thesaid former and shapers, will be shaped, and next will be dischargedfrom the machine. Y

I do not claim, for shaping counters, a last or former, in combinationwith two jaws provided with mechanism to cause them to moverectilinearly both toward and away from the said former, as the concaveshapers hereinberrroa fore described have mechanism by which, while theyare in operation, they are caused to rotate or revolve relatively to theformer therefore,

Having thus described my new shoecounter-blank-shaping machine, what Iclaim as my invention is as follows:

1. The combination of the convex counterformer with the two rotaryconcave shapers, arranged to operate therewith, substantially as setforth.

7 2. The two shapencarriers, pivoted together and provided with thegears, as described, in combination with the stationary racks and guidestherefor, and with the convex counterformer carrier, all being arrangedand applied substantially as shown and described.

eEoEeE F. MOORE.

Witnesses:

CHARLIE W. GOODNOW, HERBERT S. BEIGHAM.

